Rutilus
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| Roaches | |
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| Common Roach, Rutilus rutilus | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Cypriniformes |
| Family: | Cyprinidae |
| Genus: | Rutilus Rafinesque, 1820 |
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Rutilus (Latin for "shining, red, golden, auburn") is a genus of fishes in the family Cyprinidae, commonly called roaches. Locally, the name "roach" without any further qualifiers is also used for particular species, particularly the Common Roach (R. rutilus).
[edit] Species
FishBase lists 17 species:
- Rutilus albus Marić, 2010
- Rutilus aula (Bonaparte, 1841)
- Rutilus basak (Heckel, 1843)
- Rutilus caspicus (Yakovlev, 1870)
- Rutilus frisii (Nordmann, 1840) (Kutum, Black Sea Roach)
- Rutilus heckelii (Nordmann, 1840)
- Rutilus karamani Fowler, 1977
- Rutilus kutum (Kamensky, 1901) (Caspian White Fish, Caspian Roach)
- Rutilus meidingerii (Heckel, 1851)
- Rutilus ohridanus (S. L. Karaman, 1924)
- Rutilus panosi Bogutskaya & Iliadou, 2006 (Acheloos roach)
- Rutilus pigus (Lacépède, 1803) (Danube Roach)
- Rutilus prespensis (S. L. Karaman, 1924)
- Rutilus rubilio (Bonaparte, 1837)
- Rutilus rutilus (Linnaeus, 1758) (Common Roach)
- Rutilus virgo (Heckel, 1852)
- Rutilus ylikiensis Economidis, 1991
[edit] References
- "Rutilus". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. http://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=163760. Retrieved 6 June 2006.
- Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2011). Species of Rutilus in FishBase. August 2011 version.
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